What Is Eternal

And here in the night as

I feel the inferno

I stare in the dark thinking what is eternal

The man or the moment the act or the reason

These thoughts fill my head as

I contemplate treason

Of dreams

I have had and dreams

I have pondered

When late in the night my mind it would wander

To things

I have done and then quickly regretted

While denying vices my life had selected

And I think what

I've done or have yet to begin

And the man

I've become and the man that

I've beenNow caught in a waltz with the eternal dancer

I'm courted by death but death isn't the answer

I sayAll I was meant to be

Could I suddenly just decide

Not a thought would survive

Could it be my life's worth

Ended there with my birth

If I could see someone who's been there before me

And traded his soul for a moment of glory

His penance or mercy by spirits debated

While judged on a scale that's been heavily weighted

And what have

I done could there be such a sin

In this man

I've become, in this man that

I've beenNow calling to

God from the pit's very bottom

I pray he forgives every sin

I've forgotten this day

And who would've thought that my fate it would conjure

This twist in the road on which

I have wandered

Each vision and dream now completely dismembered

To give one's whole life and find nothing's remembered

And what good is a life that leaves nothing behind

Not a thought or a dream that might echo in time

The years and the hours the seconds and minutes

And everything that my life has placed in it betrayed

Betrayed, betrayed

The things

I have done the places

I've beenThe cost of my dreams the weight of my sins

And everything that

I've gathered in life

Could it be lost, could it be lost in this

Could it be lost in this night